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M 1.9ml

38 km ENE of Independence, California

· 1.1 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
1.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Inyo County, 50 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 503 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 36.8880, -117.7869. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Inyo County, CA 50 km (31 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Esmeralda County, NV 100 km (62 mi) S of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Tulare County, CA 115 km (72 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County
Mono County, CA 149 km (93 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Nye County, NV 168 km (104 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Nye County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

34 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.6 6 km WSW of Lone Pine, California
  2. 1.7 11 km ESE of Big Pine, California
  3. 1.5 56 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  4. 1.6 58 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada
  5. 1.6 50 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  6. 2.5 24 km SE of Big Pine, CA
  7. 2.3 52 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
  8. 1.9 62 km NNE of Keeler, California
  9. 1.8 10 km ESE of Lone Pine, CA
  10. 1.7 33 km E of Independence, California
  11. 1.7 36 km ENE of Independence, California
  12. 2.2 21 km NE of Keeler, California
  13. 1.6 40 km ENE of Big Pine, California
  14. 1.7 40 km NE of Lone Pine, California
  15. 2.5 34 km ESE of Big Pine, CA

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2020-06-24 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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